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What is Hostpoint
Hostpoint is a Switzerland-based provider of web hosting, domain registration, email hosting, and related website services. It targets individuals, small businesses, and organizations that want a bundled provider for domains, hosting, and site operations, including WordPress deployments. The offering emphasizes Swiss data center operations and a single-vendor setup for domains, DNS, mail, and hosting administration.
Broad hosting and domain bundle
Hostpoint provides domains, DNS management, web hosting, email hosting, and server options under one account. This reduces the need to integrate separate vendors for common website operations. For small teams, the consolidated billing and administration can simplify ongoing maintenance compared with assembling separate domain and hosting services.
Swiss data residency option
Hostpoint positions its infrastructure and operations in Switzerland, which can matter for organizations with Swiss/EU-oriented data residency expectations. This can be a practical differentiator for customers who prefer a provider headquartered and operating locally. It also supports use cases where hosting location is a procurement requirement.
WordPress-friendly hosting options
Hostpoint supports WordPress use cases alongside general-purpose web hosting. This fits customers who want a mainstream CMS on a managed hosting plan rather than self-managing a server. It can reduce setup effort for typical WordPress sites compared with starting from a bare VPS.
Geographic focus may limit fit
A Switzerland-centered footprint may be less suitable for organizations that require hosting in other regions for latency or regulatory reasons. Companies with globally distributed audiences may prefer multi-region deployment options. This can also affect disaster recovery strategies if customers need cross-region redundancy.
Less enterprise-oriented feature set
Hostpoint primarily serves SMB and prosumer hosting needs rather than complex enterprise hosting architectures. Organizations needing advanced platform services, extensive managed Kubernetes options, or deep enterprise governance tooling may find the portfolio less aligned. Larger teams may also require more granular role-based administration than typical SMB hosting control panels provide.
Plan constraints for high scale
Shared and managed hosting plans commonly impose resource and configuration constraints compared with dedicated infrastructure. High-traffic sites, custom stacks, or workloads with specialized dependencies may require moving to VPS or dedicated setups. That shift can increase operational responsibility relative to a fully managed web hosting plan.
Plan & Pricing
Hostpoint — Pricing summary (official site)
Web hosting (shared) — Tiered plans
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | CHF 15.90 per month | 100 GB web storage, up to 10 domains, FreeSSL, CMS-optimized, Silver support. 30-day free trial available. |
| Smart | CHF 17.90 per month | 500 GB web storage, up to 50 domains, FreeSSL, SFTP/SSH, Silver support. 30-day free trial available. |
| Business | CHF 29.90 per month | 1'000 GB web storage, up to 100 domains, Gold 7-day support, hourly backups, SFTP/SSH. 30-day free trial available. |
(Prices in CHF; see Hostpoint web hosting offers page for details.)
Sites (website builder) — Tiered plans
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | CHF 9.00 per month | Up to 5 pages, connect own domain, 1 personal e-mail, AI text generation, multilingual, 7‑day support. |
| Plus | CHF 15.00 per month | Up to 250 pages, same features plus larger site capacity. |
| Max | CHF 25.00 per month | Unlimited pages, multilingual, 1 personal e-mail, 7‑day support. |
(30-day free trial offered sitewide.)
Webshop (ecommerce) — Tiered plans (includes 3 months free trial)
| Plan | Price (after trial) | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Webshop S | CHF 29.00 per month (after 3 months free) | Up to 1'000 products, 500 GB web storage, Smart web hosting included, cancelable within first 3 months. |
| Webshop M | CHF 49.00 per month (after 3 months free) | Up to 10'000 products, 500 GB web storage, Smart hosting included. |
| Webshop L | CHF 99.00 per month (after 3 months free) | Up to 100'000 products, 1'000 GB web storage, Business hosting included. |
| Webshop XL | CHF 149.00 per month (after 3 months free) | Up to 200'000 products, 1'000 GB web storage, Business hosting included. |
(Webshop trial: first 3 months free; can be cancelled during first 3 months.)
Managed Flex Server (managed virtual servers / VPS-like) — Tiered plans
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Flex S | CHF 140.00 per month (+ CHF 190 setup) | Managed vServer; 1-month / 6-month / 12-month terms available; 24/7 monitoring and management. Prices shown on product page are quoted excluding VAT. |
| Flex M | CHF 170.00 per month (+ CHF 190 setup) | Best-seller. |
| Flex L | CHF 230.00 per month (+ CHF 190 setup) | Higher resources; Gold support available. |
| Flex XL | CHF 400.00 per month (+ CHF 190 setup) | Large managed server. |
| Flex XXL | CHF 630.00 per month (+ CHF 190 setup) | Very large managed server. |
(Prices on Managed Flex Server pages are shown in CHF and explicitly noted as excl. VAT.)
Domains — example prices (usage-based; per-TLD pricing)
Pricing model: Usage-based (per TLD; registration/renewal/transfer vary by TLD) Free tier/trial: N/A Example costs (official site examples):
- .ch — Registration / Renewal: CHF 15.00 per year.
- .swiss — Registration: CHF 90.00 (listed); Renewal: CHF 120.00 per year (support doc for .swiss).
- Domain Shield (optional protection): CHF 12.00 per year. Notes: Hostpoint provides a domain price list on its site for current TLD pricing; transfers of .ch to Hostpoint are stated as free.
VAT / tax notes: some Hostpoint pages indicate “All prices include VAT” sitewide (homepage/footer), while the Managed Flex Server product pages explicitly state prices are quoted excluding VAT—refer to each product page for VAT detail.
Seller details
Hostpoint AG
Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
1998
Private
https://www.hostpoint.ch/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hostpoint-ag/
